Honestly, I was never extremely interested in the past. I read a few EU books when I was younger, like the the Thrawn trilogy, which I'm re-reading now for the first time in ten years. And it's so good. As long as I'm on the subject, to those who say that OT fans can't accept adding things to the story and the universe, those books do plenty of that, but all of it seems to work really well. But, anyway, I was always interested in the future of Luke of the others much more than I ever was in what had happened before those characters even existed. I remember there was a series of children's books called Star Wars: Galaxy of Fear, and I was never into that because it takes place way in the future without Luke and the others. It's all about the characters.